and i lost all programs in "Application" folder too :/
im using a Mac PRo, 2.66, 4GB ram.
yesterday when i was using FF, it suddenly stopped working. the whole computer freezed (with the mouse becoming a spinning beach ball)
and then something came up so i have to leave my room, totally forgot about it.
this morning when i came back, the computer still didnt work so i force it shut down (depressing the power button for a few seconds). and everything seemed fine, until i tried to open Parallels and got the message "there is not enough disk space". i felt weird because last time i checked, i had at least 80GB free. but i checked it anyways. to my surprised, my hdd has only 500MB free. so i downloaded Disk Inventory X to check where all my disk went.
when i tried to copy Disk Inventory X to the Application folder, it took quite long. i just thought it's probably due to the lack of free space, so i waited patiently. then a message came up saying "there's alreaady a folder called "disk inventory x.app, would you like to overwrite it?" so i thought, another weird thing. but it's probably because i already had this program before. but i clicked "yes" anyways because i think this is probably a newer version. and here it comes. it was trying to copy over 10GB of data. from wehre to where, i had no idea, but i tried to stop it with no success. nontheless, when it's done, my Application folder is empty. well, almost, as shown in this picture. the those applications that survived were the ones that were running.
i checked the trast but nothing was there. the Disk inventory program weren't there either so i went back to the dmg file and ran it straight from tehre, and here's the result
PS: what's even weirder is that, while im writing this thread, the HDD's free space slowly goes back down to 1GB, as you can see in the first picture. and it's still going down. i couldnt even change the captured images to jpg because Preview was gone.
what should i do now? do i have to reinstall OSX? and in that case, should i or should i not remove/restore Bootcamp partition (it's a 32GB partition. i installed Bootcamp when i first got my MP. then i bought Parallels and never used the bootcamp partition again, even in Parallels)
im using a Mac PRo, 2.66, 4GB ram.
yesterday when i was using FF, it suddenly stopped working. the whole computer freezed (with the mouse becoming a spinning beach ball)
and then something came up so i have to leave my room, totally forgot about it.
this morning when i came back, the computer still didnt work so i force it shut down (depressing the power button for a few seconds). and everything seemed fine, until i tried to open Parallels and got the message "there is not enough disk space". i felt weird because last time i checked, i had at least 80GB free. but i checked it anyways. to my surprised, my hdd has only 500MB free. so i downloaded Disk Inventory X to check where all my disk went.
when i tried to copy Disk Inventory X to the Application folder, it took quite long. i just thought it's probably due to the lack of free space, so i waited patiently. then a message came up saying "there's alreaady a folder called "disk inventory x.app, would you like to overwrite it?" so i thought, another weird thing. but it's probably because i already had this program before. but i clicked "yes" anyways because i think this is probably a newer version. and here it comes. it was trying to copy over 10GB of data. from wehre to where, i had no idea, but i tried to stop it with no success. nontheless, when it's done, my Application folder is empty. well, almost, as shown in this picture. the those applications that survived were the ones that were running.
i checked the trast but nothing was there. the Disk inventory program weren't there either so i went back to the dmg file and ran it straight from tehre, and here's the result
PS: what's even weirder is that, while im writing this thread, the HDD's free space slowly goes back down to 1GB, as you can see in the first picture. and it's still going down. i couldnt even change the captured images to jpg because Preview was gone.
what should i do now? do i have to reinstall OSX? and in that case, should i or should i not remove/restore Bootcamp partition (it's a 32GB partition. i installed Bootcamp when i first got my MP. then i bought Parallels and never used the bootcamp partition again, even in Parallels)
